Job Seekers Dislike Networking, for Good Reason

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Apr 25, 2007 9:40 am ET

If humans are inherently social beings, why do most job seekers find networking so difficult? Barbara Ehrenreich, a journalist and advocate for the working poor and unhappily employed, writes in Forbes that the job hunters who struggle to reach out to potential professional contacts generally aren’t socially impaired. Instead, networking feels so awkward because it […]